Posted on 02/24/2016 8:28:06 AM PST by prisoner6
These gnome houses in hollowed out logs were one of the first along the east end of Fisherman's Trail in Little Buffalo State Park. Park management has evicted the gnomes.
As Steve Hoke was leaving Little Buffalo State Park on Monday after removing 38 gnome homes, he met a man and his daughter.
The 7-year-old girl had just finished her last chemo treatment. Her dad asked what she wanted to do – she said she wanted to see in person the gnome houses that she had seen on Facebook.
Hoke was pulling a garden wagon full of the 38 gnome houses that since early December have been a wildly popular attraction along the trails of the state park in Juniata and Centre townships in Perry County.
Hoke offered her a gnome house.
Instead, she wanted the tiny Tinker Bell that had adorned the balcony of one of the homes along Fisherman's Trail.
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
Pingers up, LOL! I blame this on Gov. Tom Wolf!!!!!
Obviously a liberal. Liberals are the most miserable people on the world, and they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.
#gnomelivesmatter
You win, LOL!
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Park Manager Jason Baker said he had given Hoke permission to place the gnome houses.
“Then we ran it through our channels and after re-evaluating it decided it is just not the right fit for state parks,” he said.
Closely related story: http://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/the-gnomist
Caution, may cause high humidity.
For the Left’s fondness for making everything wonderful, they’re sure good at installing administrators he11-bent on ruining innocent fun.
-Hoke was told the gnome homes “upset the balance of nature-
As it says in the article, the park which gave permission also gave the order to remove the ‘homes’ - it increased traffic to this little piece of nature, and encouraged people to follow a particular trail and, gasp, add to the ‘distraction from nature’ that the homes had become.
These insane people hate anything that makes people want to visit their little slice of heaven (plus those extra visitors likely made them work a tiny bit too..) Oh, and of course, didn’t fit with ‘wildlife.’ What, the chipmunks were demanding Amish furniture instead?
I forgot to mention to all to check out the comments at the link. Here’s an example...sigh.
I fully understand the “eviction” and hope people still bring their children to walk in the park and look for real things like chipmunks, squirrels, hawks, bird nests, squirrel nests, newts, the play of light in the forest, does moss really grow on the north side of trees, the sound the breeze makes & how it’s different in pine trees, “regular” trees, and bare trees....all the wonderful things to be seen, heard, felt in nature. They are so much more wonderful than plastic.
Thank you so much for the morning’s pleasure!
I read the story too, and it struck a cord why I enjoy my bird houses so much...lots of critters call them home, but not birds! Gnome homes would make more sense!
“Envy within, busy at the meal of snake’s flesh... her tongue dripped in venom. Only the sight of suffering could bring a smile to her lips. ... She looked with dismay on men’s good fortune... She could hardly refrain from weeping when she saw no cause for tears.”
- Ovid,The House of Envy in his ‘Metamorphoses’
Liberals are such kill joys!!! Plus, isn’t it bad luck to interfere with gnomes and fairies? lol!
Looks like Calais
Really Gnomes are being evicted?? My God...It’s. Gnomesists...We need the Travelocity’s gnome to speak for the GNOMES...
I do not support the eviction.
What you quote as things to look at is wonderful - it has nothing to do with the eviction. That someone might miss those things is entirely up to the person - but here’s the thing - if you can’t get people to go to the state park in the first place (say to see the gnome homes), they will never have the opportunity to see things you want them to see.
This was a win-win-win for the state park, and they stupidly cast it away. Those who are approaching him about having him do the same type of public art in their parks are the smart ones - get the people to the park, THEN worry about getting them to appreciate nature.
A goniometer can measure the rapidity of gnome out-migration.
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